Live Photos Called 'Best New Feature,' Composed of Separate JPG and MOV Files

Taz Mangus said:
Now remind everyone again which companies actually do that because certainly Apple is the only one who neglects to do such a thing.
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Most other companies don't act as if they invented something new, I suppose it makes Apple lovers feel good. You've only got to look at the comments on here to see that fans actually thought that Apple invented it. With Android lovers these things are just another feature not something to get all hot over.

I own quite a few Apple products, but Apple as a company makes me pewk a bit.
 
Apple must have had crates full of extra 16GB chips they purchased at some point for next to nothing - why else would they stick with 16GB? Consumers will be maxing their space out pretty quickly with 4k video and live photos.
 
People seem to be "mad" & "disappointed" by this feature, but its still going to be extremely popular lol.

and that's mainly because it was implemented in way that doesn't change how you already take pictures.

That was literally all this feature needed. No extra steps, no hurdles to jump, and ay slight issues it has will be addressed, and will be made better.
 
RockSpider said:
Most other companies don't act as if they invented something new, I suppose it makes Apple lovers feel good. You've only got to look at the comments on here to see that fans actually thought that Apple invented it. With Android lovers these things are just another feature not something to get all hot over.

I own quite a few Apple products, but Apple as a company makes me pewk a bit.
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and look where you are. You must pewk all over the place.
 
carrrrrlos said:
Apple must have had crates full of extra 16GB chips they purchased at some point for next to nothing - why else would they stick with 16GB? Consumers will be maxing their space out pretty quickly with 4k video and live photos.
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I'm pretty sure they do it to make the iPhone appear cheaper, even though at 16gb it's pretty much useless, and if you go to 64gb they make a lot more profit.

Just ask me, I just fell for the scam with the iPad Mini 4.
 
RockSpider said:
Most other companies don't act as if they invented something new, I suppose it makes Apple lovers feel good. You've only got to look at the comments on here to see that fans actually thought that Apple invented it. With Android lovers these things are just another feature not something to get all hot over.

I own quite a few Apple products, but Apple as a company makes me pewk a bit.
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You have an issue with people getting excited about a new feature introduced on the iPhone. I would stop buying Apple products if I could not get excited about new features on the product I buy. It is a shame if Android users can't get excited about new features on the phone they buy.

But that does not answer the question I asked you, what other companies admit to the new features that they copied from their competitors?
 
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Taz Mangus said:
You have an issue with people getting excited about a new feature introduced on the iPhone. I would stop buying Apple products if I could not get excited about a new features on the product I buy. It is a shame if Android users can't get excited about new features on the phone they buy.

But that does not answer the question I asked you, what other companies admit to the new features that they copied from their competitors?
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There's a huge difference between Apple fans and Android fans, I could write a book about it, the only thing that would slow me down is that I'm not really familiar with religious devotion.

Like I said other companies don't make a big deal about it, they just add it to their list of features.
 
MacRumors said:



The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus include several new camera features that have been highly popular in reviews thus far, but there's also a fantastic update to the way photos are displayed on the two devices. With Live Photos, exclusive to the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, a bit of motion is captured alongside each photo, enabling short animations that bring each image to life.

To enable Live Photos, the iPhone captures 1.5 seconds before every picture is taken and 1.5 seconds afterwards. The motion is then displayed whenever a 3D Touch force press is used on a photo, activating the animation to add a bit of context.

With iPhone 6s reviews coming out today, we've learned several interesting details about the Live Photos feature, including some negative aspects that Apple's working to improve. We're also able to get an in-depth look at what the reviewers thought of the feature, giving us an idea of whether it's truly useful or more of a gimmick.

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Apple has been quick to point out that a Live Photo is not a video, and it appears the feature is enabled by combining a 12-megapixel JPG with a MOV file. TechCrunch's Matthew Panzarino reports (in his full review of the new iPhones) that a Live Photo consists of a JPG combined with a MOV file that contains 45 frames playing back at around 15 frames per second. Combining a JPG with a MOV file means Live Photos take up twice the space of a normal image. Panzarino also shared some tips on getting good Live Photos shots, but said he believes the best use cases are still undiscovered.According to The New York Times' Brian X. Chen, there's a "short learning curve" for Live Photos, because moving a camera immediately after taking a photo will ruin the Live Photo, something Apple says it will fix in an upcoming software update. There's also no way to remove audio, and editing a Live Photo only applies edits to the still frame.The Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern calls Live Photos "the phone's best new feature," in her review, and shares a selection of example images that give a good look at how Live Photos look.

Live Photos File Details

Because of the way Live Photos work, combining a MOV file with a JPG file, the full Live Photo experience will only be viewable on iOS devices that run iOS 9, the Apple Watch with watchOS 2, and Macs running OS X El Capitan. Sending a Live Photo by email or directly to non-supported devices, the Live Photo will be stripped of the MOV component and sent as a regular JPG.

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However, when importing Live Photos to your Mac in Yosemite's Photos app, they're imported as a separate JPG and MOV file. When TechCrunch's Matthew Panzarino sent a Live Photo to our iPhone 6 running iOS 9, the Live Photo was viewable (with motion) in iOS 9. When imported into Yosemite's Photos, the image was split into the JPG and MOV components. Importing into Photos on OS X El Capitan generates a single photo in the library, and double clicking it plays the video portion of the Live Photo.

As you can see, the JPG and MOV components took up 2.5MB and 1.7MB of space, respectively, for this Live Photo taken with the iPhone 6s back camera. Meanwhile, the front camera took a lower resolution 1MB image, but with the same size 1.7MB MOV file. The MOV resolution was 960x720 at ~12FPS for both sample Live Photos.

We'll learn a lot more about Live Photos this Friday, when the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus become available to the public.

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RockSpider said:
There's a huge difference between Apple fans and Android fans, I could write a book about it, the only thing that would slow me down is that I'm not really familiar with religious devotion.

Like I said other companies don't make a big deal about it, they just add it to their list of features.
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So you are confirming what is already known, no company stands up in front of a crowd and says, "By the way this new feature was copied from...". Every company would love to have a devoted following like Apple. It's is called branding. And go seek help for your puking problem.
 
arn said:
It constantly records on a loop before you press the capture button. So it does "know" ahead of time. And when u press the shutter, it takes that exact moment as the photo. It also saves the last 1.5 seconds before you pressed and 1.5 seconds after you pressed.
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I learned the hard way that the iPhone camera is always capturing images when I was in Amsterdam at the largest garden in europe (world?). I left the camera active while walking around so I could take photos any time I wanted and wore the battery right down. This tour was the second half of the day, shooting windmill pictures had already wore the battery down some and I forgot to bring my external battery. After I figured it out, I only had about 15% battery left and a few more hours of visiting to go :( I had to keep turning the phone off to save juice until something really made me want to take a photo.
 
carrrrrlos said:
Apple must have had crates full of extra 16GB chips they purchased at some point for next to nothing - why else would they stick with 16GB? Consumers will be maxing their space out pretty quickly with 4k video and live photos.
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And then on the other hand, enterprise users do not need anything more than 16GB. They probably dont want to sell a cheaper version, so the consumer gets screwed. if only the C variety had stayed
 
Why does Brian "X" Chen still have a job? He's a terrible writer and comes across as a long form commenter from my ignore list. The Panzerino review was stellar.
 
ksuyen said:
This is the best news. How will Facebook implement it without 3d Touch? Automatic animation?
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When you're viewing images and use the previous/next, they could trigger the animation (kind of mirroring the photo roll experience). Heck, they could even animate while scrolling through the news feed.

I'm _also_ assuming they could even post processed into a web standard animation format, swap out the movie portion [on the fly] with the static portion (i.e., lower fidelity movement, higher for the static ... the latter still being a simple img source), and make these work in a standard web browser as well.
 
cariacou said:
10 year old "new feature"...
I guess the real news is the memory compression here?

now let's hope it'll be more open than the thunderbolt standards Apple designed a few years ago

edit: Nokia introduced it 1y 1/2 ago, I thought someone else did earlier but can't find any info, so I was wrong on 10years
http://lumiaconversations.microsoft...hose-moving-moments-with-nokia-living-images/
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You know what they say: Nokia invented everything in mobile around 1876. That doesn't make it any less cool or fun. Apple generally aren't the first with something, but they polish it and popularise it where before it was clunky and little known. They didn't invent the MP3 player or the music management software to manage the player, but they did it better than anyone before. Who cares if Nokia, Windows Mobile or Android had some feature before the iPhone, just as who cares who else made MP3 players before the iPod, unless you were a fan of those and feel bitter, like those who bought Zunes or Walkmen. Just enjoy it if you have it.
 
vjpulp said:
This phrase is confusing, to say the least. When I take a picture, I press the button the exact moment I want to take it. There's no way the software can know 1.5 seconds ahaed that I am going to press it a little bit later, and start recording...
So the right description would be: the iPhone captures a time span of 3 seconds from the moment you press the button, and chooses the frame in the middle as "the picture"... (which is not necesseraly the one moment that I wanted to capture)...​
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Nope. Of course it knows you are taking a picture, you have the camera open! And it continuously record and discard the frames until you hit the shutter. Then it keeps the 1.5second before and the 1.5 seconds after.

For the record Zoe only keeps .6 second before you press the shutter and then you have to keep still for a further 2.4seconds. No wonder HTC shut down Zoe.com
 
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